Okay, so "The Avengers" opens in theaters today...you heard it here first! Frankly, I was a DC Comics guy when I was growing up - I never paid much attention to the Marvel competition. Having said that - I've enjoyed most of the film adaptations of these unfamiliar (to me) superheroes. Back in '08 I created this Wall Street Journal hedcut of Robert Downey Jr. for the first "Iron Man" movie. Unfortunately, a second effort for the sequel wasn't in the cards...I would've really enjoyed drawing him in that helmet. That same year I did a hedcut of The Hulk, and this actually was a second effort as I had originally drawn a very different version of the same character for the first (poorly received) Hulk movie back in '03. Here they are side by side...

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